30,000[2] Contemporary estimates vary greatly, from 90,000[3] to 400,000;[4] 150,000 according to Mehmed II himself[5]
Are there any actual photos of the event, and not just drawings?
There’s this absolutely badass novel called “The Knights of the Cross” by Henryk Sienkiewicz that describes it so vividly, I still remember it 17 years after I’ve read the book. Highly recommended.
I always thought the Battle of Manzikert had more participants. Yeah, I know quite a large portion of the Byzantine side chickened out and defected, but I’m sure the numbers were still higher.
The Teutonic order and Poland still exist, so we can have an official rematch outside of reenactments
Really like picture 4. Might just have it printed out as wallpaper and cover an entire wall in my room with it.
So this is right before the Teutonic Order became a holy horde that conquered the current territory of Russia, Mongolia and China forming a Catholic Mongolian Holy Horde Empire?
If you go for the largest troop estimates it’s the biggest, otherwise there are other battles like the [battle of Towton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton) that are good contenders of being the biggest.
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Largest in terms of, what exactly ?
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2:1 casualities ratio + the remaining survivors got the honor to serve as prisonners
common Polish W
There is also Alfons Mucha’s great painting with the battle’s aftermath
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_the_Battle_of_Grunwald_-_Alfons_Mucha.jpg
I’ve seen the original painting of the first pic. It’s freaking huge, like a full museum wall
GDL!!
Wiki wise was a goodl battle…but not the most brutal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald
Strength
polish -lithuanian Teutonic
16,000–39,000 men[7] 11,000–27,000 men[7]
Check this one…Romanian vs ottomans…in European soil
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_attack_at_T%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_attack_at_T%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te)
Strength
30,000[2] Contemporary estimates vary greatly, from 90,000[3] to 400,000;[4] 150,000 according to Mehmed II himself[5]
Are there any actual photos of the event, and not just drawings?
There’s this absolutely badass novel called “The Knights of the Cross” by Henryk Sienkiewicz that describes it so vividly, I still remember it 17 years after I’ve read the book. Highly recommended.
I always thought the Battle of Manzikert had more participants. Yeah, I know quite a large portion of the Byzantine side chickened out and defected, but I’m sure the numbers were still higher.
The Teutonic order and Poland still exist, so we can have an official rematch outside of reenactments
Really like picture 4. Might just have it printed out as wallpaper and cover an entire wall in my room with it.
Bogurodzica intensifies.
https://youtu.be/8m8xNz0Ihyk?si=zTT-by3kxaoN8hFr
there were larger battle in medieval europe like “Battle of Río Salado” or the “Battle of Kosovo (1448)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_R%C3%ADo_Salado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo_(1448)
Teutons on top
So this is right before the Teutonic Order became a holy horde that conquered the current territory of Russia, Mongolia and China forming a Catholic Mongolian Holy Horde Empire?
If you go for the largest troop estimates it’s the biggest, otherwise there are other battles like the [battle of Towton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton) that are good contenders of being the biggest.